{"id":11054,"date":"2016-04-30T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2016-04-30T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:05:52","slug":"find-your-wi-fi-network-password-with-a-simple-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/find-your-wi-fi-network-password-with-a-simple-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Find your Wi-Fi network password with a simple command"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Find your Wi-Fi network password\u00a0with\u00a0a simple command<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>(This applies to Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone should be using a WiFi password for their home network. And most of us do. And most of us let Windows remember that password for us, so we don\u2019t have to type it in whenever we boot up and connect. But sometimes, for instance when setting up another computer, a tablet, or a smartphone, you may need to know the network password. And if you don\u2019t remember what it was, you\u2019ll be fumbling around trying to get those other devices connected.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it is really easy to find your network password. All you need to do is enter in a simple command and in just a minute or two you\u2019ll know what your network password is.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you do it:<\/p>\n<p>Step one: Open a command prompt with administrator privileges:<\/p>\n<p>On Windows 7, type CMD in the Start menu search, press Enter, \u2013 right-click CMD when it appears at the top and choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Windows 8, press Windows Key + S, type CMD press enter, right-click when it appears and then choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Windows 10, click Start, Run, type CMD in taskbar search, right-click on it, choose \u201cRun as administrator\u201d and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p>Step two: Enter the following command, at the prompt, substituting your Wi-Fi network name for \u201cSENECA\u201d (network names are not case sensitive in Windows):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style758\">netsh wlan show profile name=SENECA key=clear<\/span><br class=\"auto-style758\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/find-network-password.png\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: My network password showing in plain text. No! You can&#8217;t see it! I blacked it out.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know the name of your network, you can find it in the Network &amp; Sharing Center. You can find Network &amp; Sharing Center in the Control Panel, we tells ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find your Wi-Fi network password\u00a0with\u00a0a simple command (This applies to Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10) Everyone should be using a WiFi password for their home network. And most of us do. And most of us let Windows remember that password for us, so we don\u2019t have to type it in whenever we boot up and connect.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/find-your-wi-fi-network-password-with-a-simple-command\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}